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Tour de France 2008 - unveiled
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 25-10-2007 08:43
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10am today roughly the presentations will begins and we'll finally see the 2008 tour route.
Exciting? You bet it
https://www.cyclin...51228.html
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| mrlol |
Posted on 25-10-2007 08:54
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yep... been looking forward to today 
I'll most likely go to bretagne next year for the first 3 stages |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 25-10-2007 08:57
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well, we shouldn't really expect anything that wows us. pretty much every year, everyone's reaction to the Tour parcours is distinctly "meh".
once in a while however there are exceptions
2004 for instance.
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 25-10-2007 09:09
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i want Alpe Huez back for sure...
I really don't want to go 'meh'
The tour needs a 'wow' it suffered last year, lets hope it can bring it back up.
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| issoisso |
Posted on 25-10-2007 09:13
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well, nothing's really gonna wow us unless something majorly weird happens with the TTs, or if the Ventoux is included. you can say what you want about the Alpe d'Huez, but there are far more selective climbs
what I'd really like would be a stage finishing on the Tourmalet but climbing all of it (the Tourmalet is a monster) or on Luz Ardiden. when was the last time the tour route included Luz Ardiden? 94?
EDIT: just checked, it was used again in 2001 and 2003.
Edited by issoisso on 25-10-2007 09:16
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| issoisso |
Posted on 25-10-2007 09:20
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In 1988 there was an ill-conceived preface – a three-kilometre team time trial that culminated in a flying kilometre time trial for one of the riders. Guido Bontempi of Carrera won it but the inventor of the format was made to sit in a darkened room until he'd come to his senses.
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 25-10-2007 09:21
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must have gotten boring in there 
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| issoisso |
Posted on 25-10-2007 09:24
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actually I was laughing at the idea. TTT, then a final quarter of just one guy alone? stupid idea
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 25-10-2007 09:26
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I know CSC will be angered if a TTT isn't there... which i'm quite sure there won't be
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| issoisso |
Posted on 25-10-2007 09:28
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I hope there isn't one, but I'm 99% sure there will be one.
L'Équipe are reporting as certain that Hautacam and Alpe d'Huez are there, along with a stage finish in italy at Prato Nervoso using the col du Restefond 
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 25-10-2007 09:30
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a lot of people are reporting that, bet some of it turns out to be complete garbage
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| issoisso |
Posted on 25-10-2007 09:32
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let's see. on my part, the whole route is turning out to be distinctly "meh".
every year when there is a defending champion, the route is almost always (intentionally or not) one that benefits the strengths of that same rider.
this being Contador, I'm expecting only one long ITT plus a long TTT.
I'd also love to see the Col de Madeleine
Edited by issoisso on 25-10-2007 09:42
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| mrlol |
Posted on 25-10-2007 09:53
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I dont think there will be a TTT in for one simple reason: the war with the UCI.
the uci is taking a lot of races organized by the ASO to a lower level, so the war is on more then ever.
and the ASo won't put a TTT in because the Eindhoven TTT a few days earlier. if theres a TTT in the tour, every team will go to eindhoven with full strength for a last practice. if theres no TTT in the tour, team will send a weak team to eindhoven which migth mean that sponsors quit. thats what the ASO wants...
so no TTT imo |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 25-10-2007 09:57
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interesting point.
the presentation is in an hour and a half.
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Posted on 25-10-2007 09:57
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we'll see i guess
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Posted on 25-10-2007 10:08
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I'm just hoping for a few interesting stages and not first 10 stages 100% flat and then 'just some' mountains... |
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| Dankan |
Posted on 25-10-2007 10:14
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Route was unleashed by Spanish media yesterday.
1ª Sábado 5 de julio Brest-Plumelec Llana
2ª Domingo 6 Auray-Saint Brieuc Llana
3ª Lunes 7 Saint Malo-Nantes Llana
4ª Martes 8 Vallet-Cholet Crono por equipos
5ª Miércoles 9 Cholet-Châteauraoux Llana
6ª Jueves 10 Lac de Vassivière-Lac de Vassivière Contrarreloj
7ª Viernes 11 Besse-Aurillac Media montaña
8ª Sábado 12 Figéac-Toulouse Llana
9ª Domingo 13 Toulouse-Bagnères de Bigorre Montaña
10ª Lunes 14 Pau-Hautacam Llegada en alto
Descanso (martes 15 de julio)
11ª Miércoles 16 Lannemezan-Foix Montaña
12ª Jueves 17 Lavelanet-Perpiñán Llana
13ª Viernes 18 Perpiñán-Nîmes Llana
14ª Sábado 19 Nîmes-Digne Media montaña
15ª Domingo 20 Digne-Pratonevoso Llegada en alto
Descanso (lunes 21 de julio)
16ª Martes 22 Cunéo-Jausiers Montaña
17ª Miércoles 23 Embrun-Alpe d'Huez Llegada en alto
18ª Jueves 24 Bourg d'Oisans-Roanne Llana
19ª Viernes 25 Roanne-Montluçon Llana
20ª Sábado 26 St.Amand-Montrond-Cérilly Contrarreloj
21ª Domingo 27 ¿?-ParÃs Llana
(Montaña = mountain, llegada en alto = mountain finish, contrarreloj = iTT, crono por equipos = tTT, media montaña = hilly, Llana = flat). |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 25-10-2007 10:16
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I'm interested in the stage profiles themselves. especially that stage 16, since the start and finish locations' names mean nothing to me.
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Posted on 25-10-2007 10:20
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It seems that the Jausiers stage will feature two HC climbs: the Col de Pradarena and the Cime de la Bonette. |
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| Balaverde |
Posted on 25-10-2007 10:20
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issoisso wrote:
every year when there is a defending champion, the route is almost always (intentionally or not) one that benefits the strengths of that same rider.
Somebody didn't watch Lance in his strive for more tour titles, I reckon! |
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